Posts Tagged ‘paintings’

December 10, 2009 at 3:05 pm

Impressionism and Animals

Impressionism was dominated by compositions that showed every day scenes of French life in the 19th Century pet portraits however, seemed to not figure in the artists range of subjects, in all probability being considered undeserving of the painters’ attention.

In spite of the painters hesitance in spending time on pet art, one artist did move (of a sort) into this domain.

Manet, the grand statesman of French Impressionists and creator of such ground breaking paintings such as “Olympia” and “Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe”, made many sketches and water colours of his family cat Zizi. Read the rest of this entry »

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December 10, 2009 at 3:04 pm

Impressionism and Animals

Impressionism was dominated by compositions that showed every day scenes of French life in the 19th Century pet portraits however, seemed to not figure in the artists range of subjects, in all probability being considered undeserving of the painters’ attention.

In spite of the painters hesitance in spending time on pet art, one artist did move (of a sort) into this domain.

Manet, the grand statesman of French Impressionists and creator of such ground breaking paintings such as “Olympia” and “Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe”, made many sketches and water colours of his family cat Zizi. Read the rest of this entry »

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